Articles & Stories
Dave Is Dead
Jonny Diamond
For a man who’d once picked a shard of glass from his cheek while laughing, Dave sure could write a pretty melody, even if he was hell-bent on burying it beneath layers of distortion and noise. Perhaps that explains the need for the gas mask.
Stroke of History
David Albahari
The Borderland Foundation documents borderland culture from its headquarters in the Jewish ghost town of Sejny, Poland.
Nobody's Girl
Henny-B
The main reason that I open up my doors to people on the street is so that they would have a place to sort of come home.
They’d have a refuge and a chance to stabilize. I’ve taken care of a lot of
people, people with stab wounds, people that wanted to get off the drugs. It
was a safe injection site before the safe injection site was open. We had to do
that out of our own apartments.
Empires of Film
Brad Cran
When General Henry H. Arnold, commander of the Army Air Corps, needed more gunners for Flying Fortresses, he asked Clark Gable, the Hollywood star, to make a documentary of his own enlistment in the Army Air Force (a film that became Combat America). mgm publicists tried to persuade the Army to recruit Gable as a captain, to match the role he played on screen, but General Arnold insisted that Gable earn his rank through Officer Candidate School.
Leading Men
Brad Cran
On the morning of September 11, 2001, after the attacks on the United States, Bruce Willis walked down 5th Avenue in New York City and was confronted by a New Yorker who wanted to know where in hell was Willis’s terrorist-killing character John McClane now that he was really needed? Willis vowed to fight harder in the movies after that day and to play action heroes only.
The Obama Dreams
Sheila Heti
During the U.S. Democratic primaries, Sheila Heti collected dreams that voters were having about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The Future Is Uncertain Country
Stephen Osborne
As men of high seriousness appear on television with their crystal balls, Stephen Osborne shares what he learned about the future from Ray the astrologer.
Five Stories, Nine Selves
Sina Queyras
That’s what matters to me, these stories, you kick them up in the dust and they get inside you.
How I (Finally) Met Leonard Cohen
Ann Diamond
One evening at about 9:00 my phone rang while I was all twisted up in a yoga pose. A deep male voice said, “Hello Ann? This is Leonard Cohen. We have to stop meeting like this.”
